Summer lives on! Kind of. It’s downright chilly here in the mornings — making for a less-sweaty entrance to work, but it still heats up to 80 and is GORGEOUS in the evenings. Portland fall = everything. A few trees are changing, but nothing major yet. These plums came from my Mama’s plum trees, which…
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Stone Fruit & Heirloom Tomato Mozzarella Basil Salad
Uuuh yes yes yes yes! Summer in a bowl! CAN YOU TELL I AM EXCITED!? Sorry for yelling. But srsly, this is DEE-LICIOUS. Welcome to part three of the picnic extravaganza! Check out the basil hummus and summer corn quinoa salad if you missed those earlier this week! {Also, let’s give my assistant, Marc, a…
Apple Rhubarb Crisp
I have a plant problem. Seriously, I can’t stop buying houseplants! This is a totally new thing — with the exception of a few little potted flowers I made my parents buy me as a kid (and then I promptly lost interest in), I’ve never been into houseplants. Or really, plants at all. I just…
Toasted Coconut and Pecan Meusli
Wednesday! Halfway through interview week! And I bring you meusli! I don’t have tons to report on the internship/interview front yet: I’m in the middle of my 5 interviews, which are going well and are not nearly as scary as I imagined! I think the last few years of meeting SO many strangers and talking…
Rhubarb Sour Cream Crumble Pie
Let’s get this out of the way immediately: pie can be intimidating. There’s crust involved, and temperature matters, and it’s hard to tell when they’re done, and OMG SO MANY MORE EXCUSES. Anything else? Vent it out, because we’re about to move on. Done? Great. Pie might be somewhat intimidating, but I’m here to argue…
Fresh Cranberry Almond Soft Batch Cookies
Happy Tuesday! Have you digested all that turkey yet? Pumpkin pie? Pumpkin cheesecake? STUFFING!? Oh man. I’ve been making sure to move my bod extra this week (even if that means riding my bike in 32 degree weather and FREEZING) to get over the Thanksgiving full-belly conundrum. The good news? I’m over it! The bad…
Apple Cardamom Crumble Galette
Hellloo from the other siiiiiiiiiide! Anyone else? If you’re my neighbor, you’re altogether WAY too familiar with this song since I’ve been belting it out at 100% volume for the last three days straight. It’s a minor issue. I can’t stop! I don’t even particularly care for the song/identify with the sentiments, but I LOVE…
Apple Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal
I’m not gonna lie: I’m getting psyched for fall!! PUMPKIN! CINNAMON! PUMPKIN! Wait, what? Sure, I’m LOVING the end of summer — I’ve finally been here for a whole month uninterrupted by travel (for like 36 more hours), and have totally settled into the ride bikes/drink coffee/meet friends/go swimming/hiking/biking groove of things. It’s awesome! But…
Ginger Cardamom Rhubarb Compote
Time for a little love note! I’m feeling overwhelmingly grateful for you guys today — which is maybe a bit odd, since I haven’t met most of you… but here it goes: Thanks for being here. Thanks for leaving me comments that literally make me laugh out loud, and for sending me kind words when…
2-Minute Berry Breakfast Quinoa
Coming atcha MONDAY with an easy-peasy, belly-loving, yum-yum breakfast goodness recipe: QUINOA! We’ll get to that. How was your weekend!? Tell me what you did! I had a pretty mellow weekend, meeting up with friends and family for various meals, checking out a super cute craft fair (where I wanted to buy ALL THE THINGS),…
Mixed Berry Croissant Pudding with Whiskey Butter Sauce
Only one day left on the trail! We’ve been hiking for five days now, and finish on the West coast of England tomorrow, after hiking through sheep field after sheep field and cow pasture after cow pasture and going through kissing gate after kissing gate — I feel like I have a pretty solid grasp…
Brown Butter Rhubarb Muffins
Oy. Are we ready for a Wednesday brain dump? I HOPE SO because here’s one coming your way. This week is a battle of the conflicted emotions. Not necessarily in a bad way, and certainly not in a dramatic way, but just in a “I need to figure this stuff out” kind of way. Mostly this…
Raspberry Rhubarb Crisp
Welcome back to my absolute favorite rhubarb flavor combinations E.V.E.R. Raspberry + rhubarb = dreams coming true. I’m actually seriously passionate about this: BEST FLAVOR COMBO EVER. BEST USE OF HYPERBOLE EVER. Heeeeeeyaaah! {Note to self: cut down on coffee} This crisp may appear to be one little tiny serving, but I assure you it’s…
Blueberry Almond Smoothie {with Dates!}
Today we start a new series! SMOOTHIE MONDAY! At least, for the next few Mondays. I’ve been going crazy with the smoothies lately, and have some good ones to share with you! Derek suggested I find some alliteration and have “smoothie Sunday” or “smoothie Saturday” which, at my insistence on it being a Monday thing,…
Watermelon Mint Shake
I’m BAAACK! Fo reals! I’m back in the USofA! STATESIDE! The motherland! The mainland! Estados Unidos! LAND OF CHIPOTLE AND TRAFFIC LAWS! How many more ways can we stay USA? Way more. Don’t get me started. We got back on Sunday, after 30+ hours of surprisingly luxurious travel, and Portland greeted us with amazing weather,…
Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake with Blueberry Curd
Despite what I accidentally led you to believe yesterday, we are in Laos! Plans {I keep calling them plans and realizing that word is totally inappropriate here} changed again! Gotta throw off our stalkers every once in a while, knowwhatimean? Originally we wanted to take a boat up the Mekong River to Phnom Penh, but…